Nautilus with Zed
How to Synergize Nautilus and Zed
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Nautilus Zed Synergy Summary
Best Nautilus vs Zed Counter Build
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Guide to Synergizing Nautilus and Zed
Tips for Playing as Nautilus with Zed
While ganking, consider aiming Dredge Line at nearby terrain and following it up with Riptide for a higher hit rate.
Riptide has a delayed blast timing on activation - you can use this while running away or when enemies are incoming to serve as a deterrent.
Advice to Understand How Zed Will Play
Placing a Living Shadow before using Death Mark can give Zed a safe escape from combat.
Saving energy and spell cooldowns until you use your ultimate will maximize Death Mark's damage.
Quickly double tapping Living Shadow will teleport Zed to his shadow immediately for rapid escapes.
Nautilus Zed Synergy Stats
How to Play with Zed as Nautilus in LoL
The Nautilus Zed synergy stats shown here demonstrate the areas of his gameplay that do better (or worse) when paired with Zed, compared to his overall stats. Significant differences are areas of focus that highlight how his gameplay changes when paired with this other champion.
Overall, Nautilus sees a large worsening in his KDA (ratio of kills and assists to deaths) when paired with Zed. His KDA fell from NaN to NaN. This decrease shows that Zed helps Nautilus perform not as well in competitive League matches. Yet, the small difference indicates that this performance change is only marginal.
When Nautilus plays on the same team as Zed, he gets a marginal improvement in his total damage output. This could demonstrate that Zed supports by providing cover for him to dish out more damage or that his presence on the team also helps extend the round's duration. Similarly, when Nautilus is played alongside Zed on the same side, he usually scores many fewer killing sprees than when he plays without Zed. This is contrasting evidence that he is worse when playing alongside Zed.
Moreover, when Nautilus plays with Zed on the same team, he often receives a little more damage than when he fights alone. Taking more damage may indicate that Zed does a poor job of covering Nautilus during teamfights.
Synergies between Nautilus and Zed
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Is Nautilus better when played alongside Zed?
There is no one best champion pairing for Nautilus that will no matter what be his best teammate. However, Zed is a relatively poor companion for Nautilus. By playing on the same team as Nautilus, he drops their win rate by -1.9% to 46.9%. This clearly indicates that there is a bad bond between Nautilus and Zed that results in them performing not as well together than without each other.
Zed has a greater difficulty than Nautilus. That means you need to be cautious when arranging Zed comrades to play with, as they will have to have a greater level of skill to be able to work well with you.
Working cooperatively, Nautilus players should see an overall large increase in your team’s capability to deal physical damage. When paired, these champions can provide a great amount of sustained physical damage.
In contrast, by pairing Nautilus and Zed together, you may not be providing your other allies enough AP. Make sure to pick other champs on your team that nullifies this disparity in this pairing's playstyle.
Regardless of the skill of your Zed ally, you should focus on increasing your gold income, outlasting your enemies, and taking down objectives. If you heed this simple advice, you should do well, regardless.
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Further Insights to Win with this Champion Pairing
To truly master Nautilus to pair well with Zed during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends matches, you should continue reading to gather some more tricks and insights into this champion pairing. If you listen to the build and tips presented above, you will grow your win rate significantly.
The top items to focus on in your Nautilus and Zed synergy build include Thornmail, Frozen Heart, and Locket of the Iron Solari. When Nautilus used at least these three great items in his build, he performed a lot better when fighting alongside Zed than with many other commonly used item sets. In fact, Nautilus had an average win rate of 46.9% helping carry Zed with these items in his kit.
To have the highest probability of vanquishing your oponents, Nautilus players should equip the Aftershock, Shield Bash, Conditioning, Revitalize, Legend: Tenacity, and Triumph runes from the Resolve and Precision rune sets. Out of all the rune builds we have analyed for this team composition, this mix of runes yielded the highest win rate. In fact, these runes provided a 46.9% winrate overall.
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